María Ballesteros 💚
@m_ballesteross
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Ph.D Candidate @Harvard Government studying political violence | @IQSS Affiliate | @ITAM_mx alum 🇲🇽 💙🌅: https://t.co/9NoKyxRX0T
Joined July 2018
🧵1/6 ¡Nuestro artículo para @ForeignPolicy ya está en español!. @AOD_PhD y yo argumentamos que la elección popular de jueces no es fatal para la democracia, pero, en su forma actual, la reforma es muy peligrosa. Te contamos por qué. 👇#ReformaJudicial .
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Oigan, en México nadie nos avisa que las unis en EEUU te pagan por hacer el PhD. No solo te pagan la colegiatura, pero además te dan una beca de manutención. El no tener acceso a info también causa desigualdad en oportunidades. Escríbanme 💕💕.
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I’m a US citizen because I was born while my dad was a student. My citizenship allowed me to work at UChicago, which then got me into a Harvard PhD, a degree I hope to use to teach fellow Americans. The US has given me so many opportunities Hurts to think I’m not wanted here.
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The grad student urge to read 14 papers before writing 1 sentence.
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I’m so excited to share that I’ve decided to join @HarvardGovernm1 to begin my Ph.D in the fall!. Forever grateful to @austinlwright and all the incredible people at @HarrisPolicy and @CPoliticaITAM whose mentorship and hard work made this possible!. Si se pudo 💚💚
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@StephenFngFox Actually, I was on the debate team. You’re speaking to the Mexican National Champion, Panamerican Subchampion, and the world’s 2014 second best public speaker. Something tells me my logic isn’t the problem here….
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el Doctorado es para aprender a ser académico. Si tu sueño es hacer investigación, llégale. Si tu sueño es ser un duro que trabaja para el sector privado o gobierno, hay mejores formas de capacitarte que no te van a quitar 6 años. El doctorado te prepara 0 para ser político!!.
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This post is being targeted by bots so here’s my favorite picture of all time.
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Antes de llegar a EEUU, yo tampoco sabía que para aplicar al doctorado NO necesitas maestría. Es igual de común entrar con que entrar sin. Además, muchos lugares te dan una maestría grátis después del segundo año.
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This site is a cesspool and the comments on my last tweet got seriously out of hand but here are some that are objectively hilarious. Get ready for a thread 🧵. 1: The "She is in the CIA" edition
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If you’re latinx and applying to PhD programs in polisci this fall, I’ll be more than happy to read your materials/send you mine! DM me 💚.
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Dependiendo de la universidad, cuando te aceptan te extienden una oferta financiera. Esta indica cuanto te van a pagar, y bajo que condiciones. Aquí por ejemplo, estudias los primeros dos años y ayudas a dar clases los últimos tres, con un año libre para escribir tu tesis.
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Not sure who needs to know this but allows you to type tables into a user interface more intuitive than MS Word's and spits out the LaTeX code for it.
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Oigan obvio los requisitos y detalles varian por universidad. La idea era que sepan que estas opciones existen y sepan por donde empezar a buscar. Me es imposible escribir toda la info en un hilo de twitter. Sean buena ondi nmms.
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Finally submitted my last assignment for the semester, which means I now get to celebrate that my first year of grad school is officially over by sleeping for 2 days straight.
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Spanglish.
What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?.
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Celebrating getting my first research grant with a nap ✨💅.
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Además, siempre hay oportunidades para ganar un poco más de dinero, como trabajar de asistente de investigación o asesorar tesis.
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Ah de una vez les digo que SI, SON DE 5-6 AÑOS. Ya se, está dlv.
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We won the suit against congresswoman @tatclouthier! . Blocking dissenting opinions on public servants’ social media is limiting freedoms of expression and access to information. One small point for checks and balances 🎉
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Why are you still doing homework in your late 20s??.
Annoy a PhD student in one tweet.
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The best part about passing your general exams with flying colors is getting to update all your bios 💕
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22 hours, 7 states and 2 COVID tests later I can officially say I’ve moved to Massachusetts and I’m stoked!.
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Voy a ir agregando respuestas a preguntas frecuentes: hasta donde yo se, en Europa no te suelen pagar. Tienes que aplicar a financiamiento por tu parte. Ahi sueles necesitar maestría pero duran 3 años approx.
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Getting emails from high school students demanding help with their research will never stop being wild.
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Rewatching methods lectures at 2x speed is my favorite pandemic extreme sport ✨.
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Mexican women turned a barricade meant to isolate the government from today’s protests into a memorial to the 11 women who die victims of femicide every day. This is why I study gender and political violence, for the women whose names are on that wall. #MexicoFeminicida
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I think this math is important, so I'm going to keep going. The GRE: Over a month's worth of income for the average recent Mexican college graduate. Sending scores to each school: That's a day and a half of work, per school… .TOEFL?: Another month, and it expires faster.
This application fee is over ✨2 WEEKS✨ worth of work for someone making minimum wage in Mexico.
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¿Te interesa aplicar a un doctorado en ciencia política en EEUU?. Majo, Clau, Caro y yo te queremos contar sobre el proceso y lo que implica. ¡Acompáñanos!. P.D. No se me escapa lo increíble que es compartir este espacio con tres (3!) mujeres tan impresionantes.
Les traemos este panel con increíbles ex alumnas actualmente estudiando su doctorado. 🔆. ¿Tienes dudas sobre procesos? ¿Requisitos? ¿Costos? ¿Diferencias entre un master o un PhD? Deja salir todas tus dudas sobre un PdD en Ciencia Política. 📥📤. Pide el link de registro vía DM.
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Aplicar es SUPER CARO. Estamos hablando de ~20,000 pesos ente exámenes de entrada y lo que cobra cada universidad. En algunas universidades puedes pedir beca para el costo de la aplicación.
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Super excited to have an excuse to slack off the rest of December 🎄. ABD!! 🎇🎆
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Really loving how Harvard still can’t handle accents so they’ve chosen to rename me instead 🥰🥰🥰 H and I really are on nickname basis over here 👩🏻🤝👩🏼♥️♥️
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Hi, I am a third-year graduate student and my hobbies include waiting for my computer to explode while I figure out whether the data will load (it won't).
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My main goal from now until I start grad school in September is to learn how to spell Massachusetts correctly in one try.
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Aplicar a la maestría es super diferente y yo nunca lo he hecho, entones con eso no les puedo ayudar.
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Studying for finals while fully vaccinated-. My laptop screen: My brain:
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Very sad that, in January, I can already confidently assert that the award for the worst take of 2023 goes to this tweet. Please practice your Spanish with me. I appreciate you taking an interest in my language and culture 💕.
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Super excited to work on this project with @austinlwright and @Chris_W_Blair.
These grants fund projects led by Latin American PIs in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, & Peru on the priority theme of migration, displacement, & integration. Congratulations to @razaratev, @didavilag, @m_ballesteross, @NandoRosenblatt, @AbbyCordova0411, and Natalia Bueno…
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8 year old me cosplaying me at the end of my first semester of online grad school 🤡
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My students brought me a card, flowers and candy to our last section today. I’m not crying, you are 💕🥺
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I'm only in my first semester and I can already tell that late-night hummus and pretzels are going to be pretty high on the list of who I have to thank in my dissertation for getting me through graduate school.
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Two years ago today Mexico City rose even quicker than it fell, and I’ve never been prouder. #FuerzaMexico
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Tell me you’re in gradschool without telling me you’re in gradschool
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The world if articles downloaded from JSTOR had file names that made sense
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This application fee is over ✨2 WEEKS✨ worth of work for someone making minimum wage in Mexico.
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Nothing says dissertation writing quite like bad diner coffee and an XL muffin on a Saturday morning.
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They might be haters but they sure do believe in me ✨✨✨🚀🚀🌕🌕
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And finally, a message for all the assholes who keep swarming my profile:
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A torta, but make it ✨gentrified✨.
DID SOMEONE SAY AL PASTOR BURGER? . Smish Smash.630 Central Ave Alameda, .California 94501
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In 2018, I attended #DPSS at @HarrisPolicy and it changed the course of my life, and if you’re curious about academia and/or how data and empirics can change our understanding of policy and its consequences it could change yours too (1/n).
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At some point I made the mistake of trying to cut back on coffee and accidentally gave myself a tea addiction instead
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First ever crochet project finished!! Meet Beeatrice 🐝🐝🐝
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The real "chilling effect" is seeing Harvard use its institutional power and resources to once again publicly shame and intimidate survivors. Nobody is to blame for the students' lack of trust in .@Harvard other than Harvard, and suggesting otherwise is insulting at best.
(6/7) “. because they may have a potential chilling effect on our community members’ confidence in the investigatory process and their ability to access counseling and other resources.”.
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Harvard’s so old they’ve got free roaming dinosaurs 🦖
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My suit against congresswoman @tatclouthier has been admitted. She’s been ordered to unblock me, on the grounds that she’s violating my right to access government information, while the suit takes place. She hasn’t yet.
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Nothing quite explains the grief and powerlessness that comes with watching your home country backslide in real time.
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Taking up crocheting as a PhD student to practice being comfortable with a) starting projects im never going to finish and b) final products that look nothing like I expected 🙃
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The world if the duo mobile remember this browser feature actually remembered this browser
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3: The "What even is Political Science?" Edition, because girl, same.
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If I owe you a draft and you saw this, no you didn't.
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Baking Pan de Muerto to scare away the October, and end of semester, spookies #poliscibakes @HumasMx
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2: The "Hold up on deporting her we might be able to use her for evil edition"
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I’ve been trying, and failing. to sit and write a final paper about violence, women and politics for the last 24 hours and the irony is not lost on me.
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Colombia: come for the amazing scholarship and stay for the arepas 🇨🇴
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VERY excited for this new excuse to procrastinate on generals prep
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4: The "Lets keep the hot Mexicans but deport the not hot ones" Edition
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I can't think of a better way to start teaching at @Harvard than to have TA'd this class for Naima at the summer school! Not only are these high school kids incredibly gifted and interesting, but I also got to see one of the best teachers I've ever seen in action. 1/.
THIS is the reason I love teaching! . This summer, I taught a class called "International Relations and Diplomacy“ for a 2nd time. The class met every day for 3 hours over the course of 2 weeks, and it was offered to high school students through the Harvard Summer School. 1/n
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Pictured: #DPSS @HarrisPolicy alumni surviving winter in Cambridge✨✨. Welcome @mayralhoyos, I’m so excited you’re finally here!!
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#DPSS2019 at @HarrisPolicy is over and I’m bummed. First summer of teaching and making friends from all over the place is done. As a DPSS 2018 alum, I’m amazed by how much this program just keeps on giving ❤️❤️
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Turns out you learn more than R during grad school in the US
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On this trip, I’ve learned that Bogotános use street art and graffiti as a form of political participation more than I’d ever seen anywhere else before. The murals range from breathtakingly beautiful to somber and chilling, but they all have one message: Colombia wants peace…
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The most shocking part of this piece is not that there seems to be rampant embezzling within student orgs at Harvard, but more so that undergraduate students apparently have access to hundreds of thousands of dollars to embezzle in the first place.
INVESTIGATION: A Harvard Student Org's $30,000 Dispute. Shortly after the conclusion of her term, former president of the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative transferred approximately $30,000 from the organization’s bank account to her own.
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Grieving the end of the summer by baking peach pie 🥧🍑🍑🍑
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My 2020 highlight is trying to facetime my grandma to wish her a happy new year.
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The REAL crisis in US-Mexico relations that foreign policy scholars don’t want to tell you about.
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@PPmerino Promocionar servicios del gobierno con la imagén de Sheinbaum si es un problema. El servicio lo provee el gobierno de la CDMX, no ella. Personalizar las instituciones nunca ha sido ni ético, ni buena idea.
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A visual (and audio) representation of me trying to write the first paper in my dissertation.
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Strategically programming second vaccine doses around final exams is a pandemic grad school mood that I wasn't prepared for.
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In other news of autocratic takeovers, the Mexican president announced today that he’s moving to absorb our autonomous institutions into the office of the presidency; among them, the National Electoral Institute and the central bank.
.@lopezobrador_ dijo que alista una reforma administrativa para que organismos autónomos se integren a las dependencias de Gobierno. #RegístrateGratis
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Living in a different country as all your friends and family is just saying I miss you, when are you coming to visit over and over again until you die.
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Finding out that there’s no @krispykreme in Boston the same week I managed to schedule a vaccine appointment is not how I wanted this to go 💔 . @dunkindonuts up your game.
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Its spring again and the flowers are blooming in Cambridge, which means it’s the anniversary of that time when a doctor, when asked about a treatment plan for my awful seasonal allergies, told me matter-of-factly to transfer to Stanford.
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Of all the things I was expecting to have brand loyalty for…
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La única verdad es que mi estrategia para dar clase se trata principalmente de canalizar a la @polprof13 que llevo dentro.
Gotta love the weeks where I get to teach subjects heavy on the @CPoliticaITAM @ExITAM alumni at @HarvardGovernm1!!
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The world’s best roommate/ friend finally got her H1-B visa today so naturally we threw an impromptu three person party.
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Este 16 de septiembre, les comparto que @AOD_PhD y yo escribimos un artículo para @ForeignPolicy analizando la reforma del PJF. En resumen, la elección popular de jueces no tiene porque ser mortal para la democracia mexicana. Esperen una traducción al español mañana temprano.
My latest for @ForeignPolicy analyzing Mexico's judicial overhaul with @m_ballesteross 👇. "We argue that the real problem with Mexico’s judicial overhaul is not just direct elections for judges but rather the specific design of those elections." 1/🧵.
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I’ll admit that I did not expect “frogs can have butts too” to top the list of the top 10 most interesting things I’ve learned on academic twitter
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Offer stands!.
If you’re latinx and applying to PhD programs in polisci this fall, I’ll be more than happy to read your materials/send you mine! DM me 💚.
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